“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Dr. Instream would like us to ask Seth why he stopped at York Beach, since he had never been there before. For our part we want to know whether Dr. Instream understands that he was in York Beach on the same night a photo of York Beach was used in a session, or whether he remembers reading about York Beach in previous sessions.

(Last week we received Dr. Instream’s letter of September 13, in which he wrote that he would like to try straight clairvoyant communication with Seth on Monday and Wednesday nights at 10 PM. Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. It will be remembered that Jane’s second envelope test was held on the night of August 23, in the 180th session, and that the test photo featured Jane on the waterfront at York Beach. I took the picture in the summer of 1964.

The Instreams did not consider going to York Beach. Neither was their visit a complete coincidence, although it might seem so. All experiences have an electrical reality. Your experiences at York Beach had such a reality, and having met you, not Dr. Instream but his wife unconsciously picked up this connection, and responded to it.

(During break I asked Jane to discuss why I picked the particular photograph of York Beach to use in the test for August 23. At the time I made up the envelope the Instreams were already on their way to York Beach; I wondered what lines of communication had been open.

[...] This York Beach dancing establishment was actually a ground floor room in one of the older beach hotels there. [...]

The man and the woman in the York Beach dancing establishment, sitting across the floor alone at a table. [...]

[...] Speaking about the problem you mentioned, because your aggressions are fairly well controlled consciously, and because in the present your creative energies are in the realm of your subconscious, at this stage they can be, and often are, used to create unhappy image personality situations such as at York Beach. [...]

[...] I remembered that we had today also received a Christmas card from the owners of the hotel where we had stopped at York Beach, Maine: Ocean House.

“The man and woman in the York Beach dancing establishment … were fragments of your selves, thrown-off materializations of your own negative and aggressive feelings … the images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive energies at the time. [...]

In late 1963, some months before our sessions began, we’d taken a vacation in York Beach, Maine, hoping that a change of environment would improve Rob’s health. [...]

Seth’s explanation of the York Beach affair made intuitive sense to us. [...]

Then when the session resumed, Rob asked the question that had been on our minds since Seth first mentioned the York Beach images. [...]

—And at this particular point, by this indentation, no beach—

[...] No beach here near these rocks [and indentation].)

—Though there is a beach to the left and right, rather wide ones.

(“Yes [beach to left and right].”)

(This was our first session since returning from vacation in York Beach, Maine. [...]

[...] 18, while we were dancing at the Driftwood Lounge at York Beach, which is the hotel bar where we saw our projected fragments, described by Seth in the 9th session [in Volume 1], page 43.

(For the record, we reached York Beach on Monday, Aug. [...]

[...] However, by the time we left York Beach, I had tried to suggest to my subconscious, in line with the material we have obtained to date on the value of expectation, that the car would consume less oil than on the outward journey. [...]

[...] Marleno knew about your experience at York Beach, and because of circumstances in her own life she visited the general territory. An emotional connection with the sessions did have quite a bit to do with her particular visit to York Beach, however, and there was on her part a subconscious knowledge that Dr. Instream had been there also. [...]

(See the 9th, 15th, 17th, 69th and 80th sessions for material on our York Beach experiences. [...] These deal with events involving Jane and me at York Beach in August of 1963, preceding the beginning of these sessions by several months.

[...] For material connected with the first question, see my notes on Lorraine Shafer, York Beach, and Dr. Instream on pages 289-90, preceding the 193rd session.

(“Do you want to say a few words about Lorraine Shafer being in York Beach the same week in August that Dr. Instream was there? [...]

[...] Lorraine now told us that she too had been in York Beach, ME, during the same week that Dr. Instream had been there. Dr. Instream had stayed overnight in York Beach on Monday, August 23; Lorraine had visited the town on Saturday afternoon, August 28.

(It will be remembered that our 2nd envelope test, held during the 180th session, was held on August 23, and that it featured a photograph of Jane at York Beach. [...]

[...] We find no reference to either Lorraine or York Beach in the 182nd session. [...]

It seems that our friends are congregating about York Beach, does it not?

[...] “A connection with water” can be our Elmira, New York address, 458 W. Water Street, or that both Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach, Florida, are on the ocean.

(A later addition by Jane: “I’d say it was referring to the return address—Ormond Beach on the ocean.”

(Jane insists that “A strip” refers to the beautiful long beaches at both Daytona and Ormond, which adjoin each other. [...]

(At 8:45 tonight Jane said that Seth was going to talk about the York Beach apparitions we created at that resort in the summer of 1963, while on vacation there, in Maine. [...]

Now, as to your York Beach images. [...]

The emotional charge provides the pattern, and the impetus for creation, and in the York Beach affair and like situations, it provides for the actual projection or externalization itself. [...]

(“While Jane and I were contending with those pseudoimages we had created at York Beach, in that crowded dancing establishment—did others in the room know what was going on?”)

(“Something to do with a circle” is interesting, in that our motel at York Beach, where this photo was taken, is situated on a circular driveway in back of the beach hotel that fronts on the ocean. [...]

[...] The envelopes contained a black and white photo of York Beach, ME, taken there last summer, that is the summer of 1964. [...]

(“A place which you have both visited” is of course York Beach where the photo was taken, and “water nearby” is the ocean perhaps 75 yards away.

(“Two people” can be Jane and me, just as I recall that in the second envelope test, which also concerned a photograph of York Beach, the two people mentioned could be us. [...]

(Could these have been the York Beach couple? [...]

Vague something about York Beach couple — are they happier now on an inner level? [...]

[...] The York Beach couple! [...]

Seth told us that such images have a definite reality, but we certainly weren’t prepared to hear that someone else encountered our York Beach selves in a dream! [...]

[...] And beyond, some dune area, a beach, the tide is in.

For the coastline information, though you can see this from the beach. [...]

and roll down the beaches

(It will be remembered that it was at York Beach, in August 1963, that Jane and I saw the fragments we had ourselves created, according to Seth, in the dancing establishment called the Driftwood Lounge. [...] The snapshot was taken on the beach perhaps 200 yards from the Driftwood. For York Beach material see sessioms 9, 15, 17, 69, and 80 in Volumes 1 and 2.

[...] This time the double envelopes contained a black and white photo I took of Jane at York Beach, ME, a little over a year ago this month. [...]

(“What about those fragments you said Jane and I created at York Beach, Maine, last August? [...]

[...] What if Jane and I go to York Beach in Maine again, and meet those fragments we created; what will happen, if anything?”)

(I asked the above question because the apparition material of the last session had brought the York Beach episode to mind.)

(“If by any chance Jane and I meet those fragments at York Beach again, will we be able to speak to them?”)

6. Jane covers our York Beach “dancing episode” in Chapter 2 of The Seth Material, and also quotes information Seth gave us on it in later sessions. The mystifying event took place during our vacation in York Beach, Maine, in August, 1963, a few months before Jane began to speak for Seth. [...]

Give us a moment … The birth of Joseph took place at York Beach with the dancing episode,⁶ so you have in your own experience examples in adult life. [...]

I might add that if the York Beach adventure was a strong sign for us of psychic development to come (even if we weren’t able to interpret much of it at first), then Jane’s reception a month later of her manuscript, Idea Construction, was another; and that experience contained obvious psychic elements. [...]

[...] This time I picked a negative I had taken during our vacation in 1964 at York Beach, ME. The subject was the Driftwood Hotel, situated but a stone’s throw from the beach. [...] It will be remembered that it was in the dancing room of the Driftwood that Jane and I saw the personality fragments we had ourselves created, on our vacation in York Beach in 1963. [...]

On January 22, 1971, a few months after the first dream about the York Beach couple, Sue had another. [...]

[...] ‘You’re the York Beach couple again,’ I cry, and this is the first time they notice me.

[...] ‘Did you ever go to York Beach, Maine?’ I sit down too.

Sue has had several other short dream encounters with the York Beach couple and in each they seemed more confident and assured. [...]

[...] The episode took place while we were staying with Jane’s father and his wife in Daytona Beach. [...]

[...] Yet this simple fact occurred to neither of us while in Daytona Beach.)

[...] I usually spend every Sunday afternoon walking on the beach. [...] As a result I looked forward to spending the whole day on the beach.

That night, though, I dreamed that I was walking along the beach in the usual direction I take. [...]

According to the rest of Jim’s letter, if he’d been on the beach as usual that morning, only a miracle could have saved him from death. [...]